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A hip new apostolic movement with claims of a direct line to God, molding the young for God’s kingdom with sexual purity, 24/7 prayer, and asceticism.

A standard misconception of the religious right is to privilege sexual “sins” over the sin of, say, a lack of economic justice for women. A story from Genesis 38 retold…

A new book on the Scopes “Monkey Trial” reveals history through people, images, and good old soap opera.

Hozan Alan Senauke talks about socially engaged Buddhism, weapons of mass redemption, and “just sitting down” as a radical act.

Rev. Wright’s assertions that it’s really the “Black Church” under attack help reduce the complexity of the religious life of black America to a soundbite…

Wendy Gonaver’s lessons on the American Constitution may soon include her own story: the refusal to sign a loyalty oath designed to root out communists in public jobs whose effect is to weed out religious believers, particularly Quakers and Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Though Zionism sought to establish a state of normalcy, Israel has become an institutionalized mechanism for perpetuating a sense of abnormality.

The tragicomic Napoleonic Era reveals eerie similarities to the Bush Doctrine…

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author tangles with one of the most fraught questions of the day: “The danger for science is that, if forced to choose between God or evolution, most Americans will choose God.”

This Haitian religion, caricatured by Hollywood, maligned as “Satanic,” and dismissed as “primitive,” is getting a facelift.